Consider import fileinput import pathlib with fileinput.input(files=(pathlib.Path('in.txt'),), inplace=True) as fp: for line in fp: print(line, end='')which results in Traceback (most recent call last): File "./pathlib-fileinput.py", line 6, in <module> for line in fp: File "/Users/zmwang/.pyenv/versions/3.6.1/lib/python3.6/fileinput.py", line 250, in __next__ line = self._readline() File "/Users/zmwang/.pyenv/versions/3.6.1/lib/python3.6/fileinput.py", line 331, in _readline self._filename + (self._backup or ".bak")) TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'PosixPath' and 'str'A trivial fix is converting the specified filename to str when assigning to self._filename: - self._filename = self._files[0] + self._filename = str(self._files[0]) |